Now now now, I know what you're thinking, "Sis. Chou??? You watched The Lion King???? Isn't that against the rules???" For those who don't know during a mission, it depends on your mission president, but most of the time you aren't allowed to watch any media unless your mission president approves it, and most mission presidents only approve church related media. Soooooooo if you want to hear this story, here's how this email is going to go.
1. Church terms
2. General Conference
3. About this week (the Lion King story will be here)
4. A closing spiritual thought
CHURCH TERMS
This week introduces 3 terms. Sister training leaders, devotionals, and general conference.
Sister training leaders: also known as STLs. You can think of them as your "older sisters on the mission.
Devotional: usually in church settings, you start with a song, and prayer, have a speaker, end with song and prayer.
General conference: twice a year, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints all get an opportunity to hear from a living prophet of God and His apostles.
GENERAL CONFERENCE
If you missed a session or didn't watch it, I HIGHLY encourage you to! It is such a blessing and special opportunity to listen to God's prophet and apostles. I'm sure all of you who watched it have your own thoughts and impressions, so I will just share one. If you want to hear more of my thoughts email me and I'd love to share! One thing that stuck out to me is covenants. I think the more you spend learning about God and the church, the more you realize how important these covenants are! Covenants are promises, but more than that, they help you develop your relationship with God. Basically God promises you blessings when you promise to do certain things. And these are guaranteed blessings!! This was definitely something I feel like God was trying to tell me during conference. Commit to your covenants, and commit 100%.
ABOUT THIS WEEK!
Ready for the Lion king story? Well you came to the right place.
So first of all, I got to play at a MTC presidency dinner and devotional this week! For the MTC presidency dinner, basically the MTC presidency and whoever will be speaking at the devotional that night (we have them every Tuesday and Sunday) have dinner together. Someone I met at a BYU music camp way back when found me and asked me to be her accompanist! That night, a member of the seventy came! Elder Choi!!! He gave the talk "Look up!" A couple years ago in conference. We got to met him and play If You Could Hie to Kolob for him!! Now here is the Lion King story:
During the devotional that night, he was talking about knowing that we are sons and daughters of God. And here's how it went.
Elder Choi: I'm going to now show you a movie. If you don't like it, like it
*proceeds to show the Lion King movie*
Those were some of the best clips of movie I've seen. Another funny quote from his talk was
"PMG stands for Preach my Gospel now. After your mission, it means perfect marriage guide! First you have to "find". Then if you get rejected, you have to "ask for referrals". See??" Too good.
Then of course this week we got to watch conference. Good times. Sunday night we had a musical devotional where I was able to be the accompanist for If You Could Hie to Kolob again. If you have a chance, watch the church video "music of the gospel!"
FINAL THOUGHTS
When you grow up your whole life in the church, and especially since I've been blessed with parents who have been truly converted to the Lord, you sometimes can think, there is no more I can possibly learn. You're content, you don't have any major trails, or if you do, you are turning to the Lord so your burdens are made light. And so you get comfortable. But oh, we all have so much to learn. We are missing out when we aren't constantly seeking from the Lord what more we can learn. So commit to the Lord. Ask Him what more you can do, because He will transform you into the most amazing human being you could ever be.
*I realize there's a lot of jargon in this email so if you have questions about terms please let me know!!
I love you all dearly.
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